He acknowledges the importance of trade, but the only message the public has heard is one of satisfaction at a successful G8 summit outcome - "mission accomplished, quite frankly".
And whatever the outcome, the mission will have no impact in the Aegean sea between Turkey and Greece – the stretch of the water used by the vast majority of refugees attempting to reach Europe.
Overwhelmed by incessant emails, policy changes, assessment exercises, learning outcomes and mission statements, we don't know where to turn in our search for an education or a meaningful life.
A senior Bush administration official traveling with Secretary Powell expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the mission, despite the lack of any more dramatic agreement.
It said Mr Aquino "is ultimately responsible for the outcome of the mission" and urged him to "admit the mistakes he made .Mr Aquino will not do that.
The main outcome of his mission was the Buganda Agreement of 1900, which formed the basis of British relations with Buganda for more than 50 years.
A Fire on the Moon incarnates the conviction that the finished work can have something of the feel of a work in progress, one that shares the minute-by-minute uncertainty and drama of the moon shot (a quality that remains strong even now, when the outcome of the mission is no longer in doubt).
Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, the newly appointed chair of the foreign affairs select committee, warned that any action taken should be a "battle-winning decision" and that air strikes in Syria would make little difference to the outcome of the mission to defeat Isis.
Because he believed "that the outcome of his mission was in God's hands," one filing said, he told his questioners that he interpreted the failure of the bomb to explode as evidence that "it was not his time to die," perhaps because God wanted to test his patience or purify him more before his eventual martyrdom.
Whatever the outcome, the Rosetta mission will continue.
Mr Scherdel reported some early vibrations, but overall the mission outcome appeared very positive.
